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Don't presume that potential Air-X problems are limited to above the water line. Another cautionary insight photographers especially may like to note. I and two other local divers bought Air-Xs from the same batch. Two (including mine) have experienced no problems in the last 18 months. The third owner however has a different experience. He had his wrist unit replaced twice. Each of them died inexplicably, but a recent incident provides a clue. While diving in PNG, with his ever present Nikonos RS-AF with dual SB-104 (?) strobes, one strobe leaked causing it to cycle and fire repeatedly. Simultaneously his Air-X wrist unit blanked out. One hour after completion of the dive the unit reset itself. One can speculate that each wrist unit died in the same fashion. This diver is presently in Europe and I couldn't contact him for further info. So I'm also unable to provide any third hand comments from the manufacturer (probably a good thing). I won't draw anything definitive from this but I am now a believer that reliance on dive computers is indeed Strokery. Failure of these gadgets isn't as remote a possibility as you might like to think. At 02:57 PM 1/08/96 +0100, you wrote: >This message describes an on-land incident where an Aladin air-x computer >malfunctioned. >Prior to the incident the computer logged some 40 dives. >The dive computer and a cellular phone (Ericsson GH337) were stored in >the same bag and possibly in physical contact. >The telephone rang and at the same time the computer started logging a >dive at 2m. No combination of "contact touching" could reverse this. >I contacted the Swedish vendor, CBM who promptly replaced the whole >system without making any trouble. They pressure tested the air-x and it >appeared to log a depth exactly 2m too deep. >During this "computer dive" I noticed that an active cellular phone would >influence the depth displayed at a distance of 50 cm (about 20 inches). >The effect was a decereasing depth as the phone got closer. >/RS
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